Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIVERPOOL prepared themselves for a backlash from Crystal Palace tonight after their weekend walkover . |
| 2 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 3 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 4 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 5 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |